Artist
Emanuel Martinez
born Denver, CO 1947
- Also known as
- Manuel J. Martinez
- Born
- Denver, Colorado, United States
- Biography
Painter and sculptor, born in 1947 in Denver, Colorado. Martínez attended Metropolitan State College and Juarez Lincoln University in Denver. He currently teaches drawing and painting for the Art Students League of Denver and serves as an advisory committee member for the Denver School for the Arts and the Colorado Historical Society. Martínez is a past recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in Colorado.
Latino Art and Culture Bilingual Study Guide (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1996)
Exhibitions
October 25, 2013–March 2, 2014
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, when the concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge.
November 20, 2020–August 8, 2021
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today.
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